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Town of Braintree Finance Commit
The Finance Committee is defined by chapter 2.40 of Braintree's bylaws.
Membership and Qualifications:
The finance committee shall consist of fifteen (15) voters appointed by the Moderator.
No person who is an elected officer of the town,
except town meeting members,
or a member of any board of the town receiving pay there from or any appointive employee
of the town, shall be qualified to serve as a member of the finance committee.
No member of the Finance Committee shall serve on any other committee of the town,
except the capital planning committee.
Question: are any members of Fincom former members of the school committee?
Questions: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
or a member of any board of the town receiving pay there from or any appointive employee
of the town, shall be qualified to serve as a member of the finance committee.
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The deck is stacked against us
Department heads submit annual budget requests. The Finance Committee reviews each line item.(Do all of the Fincom members read and understand each line item, what is their criteria when voting)
Then they make a recommendation after voting yea or nea on each line item and a total for each budget to Town Meeting members.(What criteria does the Town Meeting use to vote on each line item?)
TMMs have chance to ask any questions (many are naive, repetitive and not meaty for sure)before they vote to appropriate funds for each budget for the ensuing budget year.
(Is their vote the results of pressure from any groups ie unions members on hand?)
The fincom is staffed by those very sympathetic to the school department.
The school committee is afraid to go against the teachers union, the town meeting doesn?’t have a clue or is in the teachers union. What ever they, the schools ask for they get. At the present rate of school budget increase of greater than five percent/year we will be broke in about five years.
If the capital improvement funds are included the town will not have a tax base, the schools will eat up all funds. We've been duped, stuped and betrayed by our School Committee and administrators for bleeding our tax supported dollar appropriations each year through this budget struggle the past couple of years in particular. When will we grab hold, squeeze and say NO when we can't afford this bleeding any further?
All data thanks to TMM12,thank you sir.
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deck is not stacked against you
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The deck is stacked against us
Jan 3, 2005
Department heads submit annual budget requests. The Finance Committee reviews each line item.(Do all of the Fincom members read and understand each line item, what is their criteria when voting)
Then they make a recommendation after voting yea or nea on each line item and a total for each budget to Town Meeting members.(What criteria does the Town Meeting use to vote on each line item?)
TMMs have chance to ask any questions (many are naive, repetitive and not meaty for sure)before they vote to appropriate funds for each budget for the ensuing budget year.
(Is their vote the results of pressure from any groups ie unions members on hand?)
The fincom is staffed by those very sympathetic to the school department.
The school committee is afraid to go against the teachers union, the town meeting doesn?’t have a clue or is in the teachers union. What ever they, the schools ask for they get. At the present rate of school budget increase of greater than five percent/year we will be broke in about five years.
If the capital improvement funds are included the town will not have a tax base, the schools will eat up all funds. We've been duped, stuped and betrayed by our School Committee and administrators for bleeding our tax supported dollar appropriations each year through this budget struggle the past couple of years in particular. When will we grab hold, squeeze and say NO when we can't afford this bleeding any further?
All data thanks to TMM12,thank you sir.
-By Anonymous
By THO
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TMM 12/Anyone in the Know
Do you happen to know what percent of our budget is allocated to each individual town department?
By money matters
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